50 students will be trained by IIT Kanpur in a session to utilize the future data from ISRO’s Aditya -L1 MISSION.

The  goal was to train a group of  undergraduate, MSc, and PhD students in how to use forthcoming satellite data. The Department of physics and the Aditya -L1 support cell at the Aryabhatta Observational Science Research Institute, in Nainital, organized the three days workshop together.

The fifth Aditya-L1 workshop was organized at the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur (IITK). The Aditya- L1 mission by ISRO, in which India had sent a satellite to the sun for the first time to study the atmosphere at the sun, its impact on the earth was done by the IIT, Kanpur.

According to the Indian Institute of Technology, Kanpur, the workshop’s goal was to teach the selected final year, post graduate and PhD students, how to understand and use the forthcoming satellite data.

Prof. Harshwardhan Wanare, director of the physics department and the center for lasers and photonics at the Indian Institute of Technology, inaugurated the workshop. In his speech, Dr. Vaibhav Pant of ARIES discussed the significance of the Aditya- L1 support cell for analyzing the data from the Aditya-L1 mission.

As per the press release, the workshop gave a hands on training in using the Mangneto-hydrodynamic code PLUTO, a numerical code for computational astrophysics used to understand origin of solar storms.

They additionally visited the Plasma lab to find out about the age and control of plasma in the research center. Prof Dipankar Banerjee, director of ARIES delivered a talk on “aditya-l1: India’s own central goal” , mentioning how cross country cooperative efforts from many organizations has led to the formation of one of the world’s most state of the art space observatories, totally made in India